Broadway Ocho

To kick off the 2009-10 season, the Florida International University theater program has chosen a play that hits home. In fact, maybe hits home is too quaint a phrase; aims a heat-seeking missile toward the Miami heart is more like it.

Melinda Lopezs drama, Sonia Flew, concerns a Cuban-American mother whose son has decided to enlist in the Army in order to fight in Afghanistan. By getting in touch with her anger over her sons decision, the mother realizes she has an unfinished beef with her own parents, and its not going to be solved over one medianoche. The play is directed by FIU faculty member Jennifer Smith De Castroverde and performed, stage-designed, and lit entirely by FIU students inside the Wertheim Performing Arts Center. Tickets cost $12, or $8 for students, alumni, faculty/staff, and seniors. All showtimes are 7 p.m., except Sundays (2 p.m.).
Sept. 25-26, 7 p.m.; Sun., Sept. 27, 2 p.m.; Oct. 1-3, 7 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 4, 2 p.m., 2009